It seems like Pebble just caused Kickstarter to crash. The smartwatch maker announced today that they will be offering a Steel version of the upcoming Pebble Time. Those who have backed the Pebble Time can go to Kickstarter to update their reward tier to Pebble Time Steel.

Shortly after the announcement, Kickstarter website starts to experience some issue. According to Status.Kickstarter.com, the site is experiencing slow performance and they are adding capacity to handle elevated traffic.

Elevated traffic. Hmmm….. A quick look at the uptime and respond time shows that the issue started shortly after 9pm Singapore time. Pebble made the announcement at around 9pm Singapore time.

Information like usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords were accessed by hackers. Actual passwords were not reveled but it is possible for someone with enough computing power to crack the encrypted password.

Luckily, no credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on all but two Kickstarter user accounts.

So you know the drills. Time to change your Kickstarter password. If you have another service using the same password, you should also change them too.

Here’s an amazing project on Kickstarter. miggo is the world’s first multifunctional camera carrier that is both a camera strap/grip and case at the same time.

I think it is a pretty cool idea to use the camera strap to wrap the camera. It is great for those casual days when you just want to bring 1 camera and 1 lens for a simple walk and shoot. I already have a few camera bags but I still backed this project immediately when I saw it.

miggo is available for both DSLR and mirrorless camera and available in 2 design.

The Strap & Wrap is a padded strap for carrying your camera around your neck or across your body. When done shooting, simply roll it around your camera and turn it into a protective carrier.

The Grip & Wrap is a secure and adaptable grip for your wrist. Like the Strap & Wrap, you can simply roll miggo around the camera to turn it into a protective carrier when you are done shooting.

All miggo have a special dedicated pocket for the lens’ cap and a smart adapter screw that connect to the camera to a tripod even while miggo is attached. Cool feature.

miggo is now on Kickstarter. Simply pledge $35 for Grip & Wrap or $40 for Strap & Wrap as reward.

The Obama Administration has decided not to build a Death Star even though a petition reached the 25,000 signatures necessary. But that is not stopping the Star Wars fans from turning to crowd source funding site, Kickstarter, to seek funding to build the Death Star. Check out the Kickstarter project for an Open Source Death Star.

The project creator is seeking £20,000,000 in funds. The entire project will use open source hardware and software to keep the cost down. Wait, before you start putting £20,000,000 into the project, just want to point out that £20,000,000 is for the detailed plans to build a Death Star and enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports. The actual construction of the Death Star will happen when they reach the stretched goal of £543,000,000,000,000,00 ($850,000,000,000,000,000). Yikes!

OK, this is actually a joke. I’m actually surprised that Kickstarter agreed to it. But judging from the high initial goal amount, I doubt it will be successfully funded. Oh, by the way, the funding will end on 1 April 2013. Can’t wait to see the April Fools’ Day message.